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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452173203321

Autore

Farnell Brenda

Titolo

Dynamic embodiment for social theory : "I move therefore I am" / / Brenda Farnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-64526-8

0-203-80503-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Ontological explorations

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Human body - Social aspects

Movement, Psychology of

Muscular sense

Semantics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory "I move therefore I am"; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. The primacy of movement; 2. The body in social theory; 3. A new ontology of personhood; 4. A methodological move: movement literacy; 5. Bourdieu's habitus: a sociological mislocation of agency; 6. Lakoff's and Johnson's metaphors: a psychological mislocation of agency; 7. Verbal and non-verbal: a linguistic mislocation of agency; 8. The ab(sense) of kinesthesia in Western thought; 9. Implications of dynamic embodiment for social theory; Notes

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just 'the body' at the heart of theories of social action. It draws together several lines of thinking in contemporary social science: about the human body and its movements; adequate meta-theoretical explanations of agency and causality in human action; relations



between moving and talking; skill and the formation